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In the two-and-a-half years since Doug Guthrie set out to revive a business school with financial strife and flagging rankings, some faculty say the dean has pulled the reins too close to his chest and shut faculty out of crucial decisions.

As Guthrie set out to stabilize the school’s budget, increasing fundraising and growing enroll-ment, some professors say his quick takeover and actions came off as power grabs. Some professors said he unfairly ratcheted up tenure standards, made decisions unilat-erally and delayed efforts to gather their input – moves the dean said were necessary to raise the school's ranking and revenue.

He took tighter financial con-trol over the school’s departments, penning an emergency plan for the financially ailing business school his first year in the dean’s office and rejecting funding proposals from a handful of departments.

Guthrie also denied three of the four professors who were up for tenure last year, an unexpected decision that rankled faculty across the school, who said standards were raised to more highly scruti-nize research, but the change was

not well-communicated. Those tenure rejections were upheld by a Faculty Senate committee and the provost’s office.

Guthrie said he came in with a charge to shake up the school and knew it would lead to some discontent, especially with higher education in flux as student debt rises and online learning acceler-ates. His first task, he said, was keeping the school afloat finan-cially, which forced him to move quickly on growing programs in-stead of forming a strategic plan-ning group with faculty.

“The idea that we could just continue to do what we do and not change is ridiculous,” Guth-rie said. “I was not only brought here with a mandate of making us into an elite school, but I have a re-sponsibility to this school and this University to build a foundation for the future. That means we have to make some hard decisions.”

The dean's office has calmed the grumblings lately through some appeasements, like programs that give non-tenured faculty time off in the summer to focus on research.

The school has also seen un-usual turnover, with the entire ad-vising staff departing in the past Long-serving professor Greg-

ory Maggs will take over the law school after an abrupt leadership switch more than two weeks ago installed him as interim dean for the second time.

Maggs will replace Paul Schiff Berman, who announced Nov. 12 that he would become the Uni-versity’s vice provost for online education and academic innova-tion after just 18 months in the law school’s top position.

The move, effective Jan. 16, steadies the school’s leadership as it tries to boost fundraising and make up for lagging enrollment.

Administrators said Maggs was the clear pick because of his six months as interim dean in 2010 – after Dean Frederick Law-rence left GW to become president of Brandeis University – and that the school’s faculty, students and key donors were already familiar with him. Appointing another in-terim dean would have given the No. 20 law school its fourth lead-

er in two years.Maggs said he would not be a

candidate for the permanent dean position, which GW will begin searching for this fall, and said earlier this month, “No one was more thankful when Berman took the job, because it's a lot of work.”

He said as interim leader this time around, he would help ad-ministrators deal with the chal-lenges of declining applications and tough job placement.

“All law schools face chal-lenges in these difficult economic times with finding great jobs for their graduates,” Maggs said in an email. “Fortunately, we have a great group of people working on this problem at GW. I hope to help them in any way I can.”

Faculty mostly applauded the move, praising Maggs for his sol-id reputation among professors, students and alumni. But the pick was not without controversy.

One professor, W. Burlette Cart-er, alleged in an email sent to law school faculty, University President Steven Knapp and Provost Steven Lerman that leaders overlooked

the school’s senior associate dean for academic affairs, Christopher Bracey, because he is black.

“While I very much appreciate Gregory Maggs’ agreement to step into the deanship at this very dif-ficult time, I must express my own view that any faculty opposition to Sr. Associate Dean Bracey mov-ing into the interim deanship was racially based,” Carter wrote.

Carter, who is black, told The Hatchet that she’s heard of a “ren-egade group” of faculty trying to hold back Bracey, the school’s sec-ond-in-command who was also a candidate for the interim role, for racially charged reasons.

The school has had three in-terim deans in the last 15 years, all of whom previously held the senior associate dean post.

“The concern – and I’m not the only person who shares it – is that because he’s African Ameri-can, he needs to jump through hoops,” she said.

But law professors, who have some input into the interim dean

The University has raised $6.5 million of the $100 million needed to construct the Science and En-gineering Hall – increasing the pressure for heavy fundrais-ing over the next decade.

That figure shows the fundraising office has col-lected half a million dollars to cover construction funds since the last report in April, officials told a Faculty Senate committee Friday. Counting re-lated scholarships and academic programs, about $25 million has been raised for the entire $275 mil-lion project – the most expensive in GW history.

While the University will pay construction costs over the next decade and lean on other revenue sources, the fundraising pace il-luminates donor enthusiasm and whether it matches GW's big ambi-tions. Administrators aim to bring in about $10 million for the build-ing by the end of fiscal year 2015, Executive Vice President and Trea-surer Lou Katz said last spring.

Associate Vice President for Development William Bartolini said potential donors still “want to study the project” before de-ciding to give money, and more gifts will pour in as the project nears completion.

“As we get closer to the open-ing, there is a natural crescendo as donors see the project becoming a reality and a natural deadline that

requires their commitments,” Bar-tolini said. “The building doesn’t open until spring 2015, so we will continue to engage donors and in-crease momentum in the project.”

Building plans are nearly final-ized for a January 2015 opening. The hall's high-tech lab space was allocated among researchers last spring, and Ballinger Architects, a Philadelphia-based firm, will re-lease final floor plans this month.

Economics professor Donald Parsons said the “door is closing on getting big money” for the Science and Engineering Hall because GW

GW’s most challenging opponent so far this season hasn’t been an op-ponent at all, but rather a combination of two aspects of play: opposing de-fenses and stagnant shooting.

It’s been a frustrating one-two punch that’s forced the team to battle to even mentally remain in games. And Sunday, once again, an opponent came out in a full-court press against the Colonials, Manhattan trying to halt GW’s transition play with the approach that’s caused the team to stumble of late.

This time, though, GW (4-3) showed that its best response to a tough press is a challenging defense of its own, taking a 67-55 victory over Manhattan in the annual BB&T Classic.

“They’re going to press us, and they’re going to zone us with the way we shoot the ball. So we’ve just got to keep getting better in practice, and we’ve got to keep working on our ball handlers,” Lonergan said.

Men's basketball | GW 67, Manhattan 55 University far from SEH fundraising goal

jordan emont | PHoto edItorTop: Senior guard Lasan Kromah, who posted 18 points and four assists, takes it to the net in the second half. Above: Senior forward Isaiah Armwood grabs a seat next to GW's mascot on the Metro, the way the Colonials got to Sunday's game.

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Business school dean takes flak from faculty

HatcHet fIle PHoto by jordan emont | PHoto edItorFaculty have criticized Doug Guthrie, dean of GW School of Business, claiming that he does not always include lower-level faculty and staff while making decisions.

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which will open in January 2015, costs $100 million to build.

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The Colonials overcame Manhattan at the Verizon Center Sunday.

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Students lit candles in Kogan Plaza to raise awareness for the disease.

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Snapshot

Metropolitan Police officers ar-rested a Potomac House resident Tuesday for possession of dozens of prescription drug pills and mul-tiple bags of marijuana.

A GW Housing Programs staff-er found nine bags of marijuana, one ecstasy pill and 40 Xanax pills split into 10 bags in Patrick Oliph-ant’s room, according to Metropoli-tan Police Department documents. Police also found “multiple items of paraphernalia.”

His Tuesday afternoon arrest marked the ninth student caught with drugs on campus this aca-demic year, and the sixth arrest for drugs other than marijuana. Offi-cers arrested a City Hall resident in October for marijuana, psilo-cybin mushrooms and the benzo-diazepine drug clonazepam, after receiving an anonymous student complaint.

Gabriel Slifka, director of the Office of Student Rights and Re-sponsibilities, said earlier this fall that more students have been re-porting suspected drug usage for safety and health concerns – a trend University Police Chief Kevin Hay said then that he also observed.

In the 2011 calendar year, 21 students were arrested for drug law violations on the Foggy Bottom Campus – eight more than in 2010.

Two University Police officers reported to Oliphant’s fifth-floor room at 11:21 a.m. after receiv-ing an anonymous tip that he had drugs, according to the documents. The officers, alongside Potomac’s housing director, used a key to en-ter the room when Oliphant did not respond to a knock on the door.

Oliphant complied with the of-ficers and directed the housing di-rector to the storage location of the drugs before exiting the room, ac-cording to the documents. The sus-pected marijuana tested positive for traces of THC.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office will determine if Oliphant will face charges for intent to sell drugs, MPD public information officer Anthony Clay said.

UPD confiscated the drugs and paraphernalia. As of Sunday, D.C. Superior Court did not have a case against Oliphant.

—Brianna Gurciullo

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The U.S. House of Represen-tatives passed a bill Friday that would draw more foreign stu-dents to graduate science, tech-nology, engineering and math programs and could increase GW’s admissions selectivity – though it has become the target of political opposition.

The bill would create 55,000 additional working visas for foreigners who receive ad-vanced degrees in STEM fields from American universities, intended to encourage inter-national students to stay in the U.S. after graduating.

But the bill drew harsh criti-cism from the White House last week, with a spokesperson for

Barack Obama describing it as a set of “narrowly tailored proposals that do not meet the President’s long-term objec-tives” in a release. The STEM visas would replace a green card lottery system that previ-ously allowed foreigners from countries with typically low im-migration rates, such as African nations, into the U.S.

The Republican-backed bill will likely fail in the Democrat-controlled Senate, as it passed the House with votes cast large-ly along party lines. Represen-tatives shot down a similar bill in September.

Some organizations have also attacked the bill, like the National Association on For-eign Student Advisors’s As-sociation of International Edu-

cators, which announced its opposition to the bill last week, saying “it perpetuates a divi-sive, us-versus-them approach to immigration reform."

Engineering professor Charles Garris said the bill would increase the number of international students who would want to study STEM fields at GW, because they would have an easier time stay-ing and working in the country after graduation.

“There are fine interna-tional students in the STEM areas here, and this bill will only attract more,” Garris said. “GW has a good inter-national reputation, and a bill like this will only increase our image and our competitive-ness internationally.”

Nearly 30 percent of all graduate students in SEAS were foreign last year, the most foreign students in any of GW’s 10 schools.

Last May, Forbes Magazine ranked D.C. as the No. 2 city in the nation for job growth in STEM fields. Jobs in D.C. sci-ence and engineering indus-tries have increased more than 20 percent since 2001.

A potential influx of appli-cations could also mean stron-ger applicant pools for GW just a few years before it will open the $275 million Science and Engineering Hall. The academic complex will add thousands of feet of lab space as GW looks to become a top-tier research institution.

Garris said the move

could also help alleviate the American scientist and engi-neer shortages facing compa-nies around the U.S.

“Americans typically don’t go further into the STEM doc-toral programs because they are more interested in getting jobs and getting into business and making money. They don’t have any interest in sitting in a laboratory knocking their heads together,” Garris said.

James Brown, an alum-nus and executive director of the lobbying group the STEM Education Coalition, said many of the 500 businesses and professionals in his net-work complain that there are not enough advanced STEM graduates in America.

“There’s a very shortage

of real talent out there. They’re challenged to hire people with the right skills,” Brown said.

He added that companies support the bill but acknowl-edge that it is short-sighted. To create real immigration reform, he said, there needs to be a fo-cus on the big picture of how to institutionalize a greater num-ber of STEM graduates and job seekers in America each year.

“We want the smartest peo-ple in the world studying and working in the United States. It doesn’t make sense to provide them with a world class educa-tion in a field and then we lose them to going back to their home country because they can’t get a visa,” Brown said.

–Chloé Sorvinocontributed to this report

STEM student visa bill would strengthen GW programs

More students have complained this semester about smoking in Ivory Tower, prompting the Uni-versity to email residents warning that officers could soon crack down on indoor cigarette use.

Twenty-two students have been charged with violating residence hall smoking policies so far this school year, Office of Stu-dent Rights and Respon-sibilities director Gabriel Slifka said.

Last academic year, 51 students were charged, a drop of 15 cases from the previous year.

The University Police Department sometimes steps in when incidents or complaints are reported to GW house staff members. But UPD Chief Kevin Hay said the office could not count how many reports were specifically from Ivory Tower by publication time.

"As we head into final exams, please take this op-portunity to examine how your choices affect those around you. If you choose to smoke, please exit the building to do so in the fu-ture," the email read.

Greg Rheault, who over-sees juniors and seniors in

the Center for Student En-gagement, said the goal of

the message was to make residents "aware of their

responsibilities as members of the GW campus commu-

nity, to recognize how their behaviors affect others and to inform residents how to report concerns to [the Uni-versity Police Department]."

He said most of the in-cidents occur late at night or early in the morning, and students were voicing concerns to their house staff members about smoke com-ing into their rooms through ventilation systems.

When students are caught smoking indoors, they are brought before the University’s judicial branch for disciplinary action, with punishment ranging from warnings to probation. The severity of disciplinary ac-tion depends on whether other illegal substances are present in the room at the time of the bust – an inci-dent Slifka said is rather common.

Students are also pun-ished for covering smoke detectors or tampering with fire safety systems in other ways, Slifka said.

"The Office of Student Rights & Responsibilities only receives a small num-ber of reports each aca-demic year for a smoking policy violation not in con-junction with other policy violations,” Slifka said in an email. u

University warns of Ivory Tower smoking complaints

PHOTO ILLUsTRATION BY jORdAN emONT | PHOTO edITORThe Center for Student Engagement emailed Ivory Tower residents last week alerting them of an influx in student complaints regarding indoor smoking. Smoking is prohibited inside campus buildings.

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GW must set the record straight

When I went home for Thanks-giving, I made an offhand re-mark about GW’s unranking at the dinner table, only to

find something surprising: Not a single member of my family had heard about it. In fact, I had to explain the gory details of how it had occurred.

It just goes to show that GW could have done worse than this admissions data scandal.

This isn’t to trivialize the administra-tion’s admissions mistake by any means. A decade or more is a long time to continu-ally use a system of estimation and inflate freshman profile statistics. And the Univer-sity hasn’t handled the unranking situation with much transparency. In fact, GW has refused to release a formal audit report, claiming that it never received one.

But this misstep shouldn’t stop peo-ple from giving back to GW, and alumni shouldn’t ditch their alma mater. They have to realize that the University is reli-ant on their continued support. GW can recover from this, and over time, it is like-ly it will rebound from this and ultimately emerge even stronger than it was before.

In the past decade, GW has made strides in alumni fundraising. In 2012, the University raised $120 million in do-nations, $31 million of which was from alumni. Plus, the University is in the qui-et phase of a capital campaign, in which administrators will call upon donors and supporters from across the country to ask for their support. As a school that has been playing catch-up in fundraising, this

trajectory must be maintained. U.S. News & World Report rankings

actually mean very little and appeal to few other than high school upperclass-men who are just beginning the college application process. GW's unranking will not change the quality of the education we receive here, and it will not alter students’ quality of life.

The University has an opportunity to turn this disaster into something positive. But it must call on its alumni to help.

In November, the University emailed alumni and donors to help curb any po-tential concerns. During this time of un-certainty, it’s even more important for the development office to remind its support-ers of how essential their commitment to the University is today and will continue to be in the months and years to come.

Just because GW made a very public mistake doesn’t mean we have to lose sup-port from the larger community. If any-thing, it is a time when the development office should increase its push to solicit donations.

After this scandal, the University should do everything in its power to keep alumni giving flowing.

–The writer is a freshman in the Colum-bian College of Arts and Sciences.

Staff Editorial

My parents met as undergraduates in College Park, Md., so I grew up root-ing for the University of Maryland. Naturally, I was saddened when UMD

announced in November that it was leaving the Atlantic Coast Conference – which it helped found in 1953 – to join the Big Ten in 2014.

But I feel as though I’m watching a bad movie I’ve already seen one too many times. As Colo-nials, we know how difficult it can be to spark in-terest in the men's and women’s basketball games. And we know what it’s like to lack school spirit and campus tradition.

And now, GW’s problems could just as easily begin to plague the University of Maryland.

It saddens me because this was a move done without consideration for the most important as-pect of college sports: tradition. In a blatant mon-ey grab in the name of student athletes' so-called wellbeing, the University of Maryland has sold its priceless tradition and thrown away its identity for pennies on the dollar.

As a kid, ACC basketball games against the University of North Carolina and Duke University were exhilarating. The hatred fans had for those teams was intense, and it made the games special and fun to watch.

Whether we won or lost, the games were excit-ing because of the history and tradition that came with them.

But that was then. Today, collegiate sports are stuck in a broken business model that relies on ticket sales, merchandising, TV deals and lots of money from alumni just to survive.

Of course, money is important, but to build a strong athletics program, you need a strong cam-pus tradition too. The familiarity that comes with being in the same conference and playing the same teams for decades is just as important as the rev-enue the teams collect. It builds a sense of rivalry between schools and creates memorable games.

And while this move might shoot some reve-nue into the school’s athletic programs, Maryland is alienating generations of graduates and students. There is a time for rebranding, but this is not a sim-ple facelift. This is massive reconstructive surgery.

Unlike UMD, GW’s athletic program lacks a great history and tradition, mostly because we have no rivals.

I worry that this move for UMD will garner the same results.

Maryland’s administration justified this move as a way to solve its athletic department's financial woes. But those problems won’t disappear when Maryland leaves the ACC. Dave Brandon, ath-letic director at Big Ten powerhouse University of Michigan noted on 60 Minutes Nov. 18 that only a handful of colleges have athletic departments that break even – let alone earn a profit.

Maryland already plays in a competitive con-ference and has developed decent football, basket-ball, soccer and lacrosse teams. Those sports are part of the tradition and culture of the University, and Maryland will likely be short-changed with this deal.

One of GW's greatest flaws is its lack of tradi-tion. And that manifests itself most harshly in our turnout for games at the Smith Center.

I’m afraid by moving to the Big Ten, Maryland will find itself caught in this same trap.

–The writer, a junior majoring in international affairs, is a Hatchet columnist.

I’ve come to accept that self-deprecation comes with being an English major.

When I tell a business ma-jor that I study creative writing, I don’t wait for a reaction. Instead, I immediately follow with, “and I’m going to be the best barista Star-bucks has ever seen.” The student usually laughs as if to say, “Yeah, because what else could you do?”

I am proud of my discipline, but voicing my liberal-artsiness too often results in an infantiliz-ing eyebrow-raise or a dismissive “oh.” The liberal arts are stigma-tized, conjuring words like “irrele-vance,” “debt” and “Applebee’s.” These stand opposite to words used to describe the business disci-pline, like “lucrative,” “esteemed” and “Wall Street.”

And with the recent announce-ment that the GW School of Busi-ness could require liberal arts mi-nors for its undergraduates, the tension between liberal arts and business majors has arisen again.

Business school students have voiced their dissatisfaction with the potential encroachment of the liberal arts into their discipline, declaring a liberal arts minor wasteful and unnecessary. But

they’re wrong. General education requirements alone aren’t enough to expose business majors to the important lessons learned from a humanities degree.

A liberal arts education teach-es students how to articulate and organize ideas. In the words of the late author David Foster Wal-lace, the humanities, among other things, “teaches how to think.” I spent a semester in the School of Business and then transferred into the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences for just that reason: I wasn’t learning how to think.

Not to mention, I wasn't learn-ing important communication and writing skills.

I could have learned my business school course material from reading a textbook or even by going online. In the entire semester that I was a business student, I didn’t have any group projects that taught me how to collaborate creatively with my

classmates or professors.Requiring a minor will only

advance the business education and expand post-graduate oppor-tunities for business majors. Busi-ness school undergraduates can’t succeed in the business world if they’re not proficient in the skills that are offered to English, history and sociology majors.

If business majors took on a lib-eral arts minor, they would learn how to prepare written essays as well as projects that involve more interaction with their peers – skills that are essential in the world of boardrooms and pinstriped suits.

College business students who took the Collegiate Learning As-sessment, which focuses on writ-ing and reasoning skills, scored lower than humanities and social-science majors, according to a April 2011 article in the Chronicle of Higher Education.

This dismal trend for busi-ness students also exists for the GMATs, the entry exam for M.B.A. programs. Undergraduate busi-ness majors scored lower than all other majors, according to “Aca-demically Adrift: Limited Learn-ing on College Campuses.”

And a University of Missouri-

St. Louis survey of GRE scores between 2006 and 2009 compar-ing 44 different majors found that business majors ranked 35th in verbal reasoning and 36th in ana-lytic writing. Liberal arts majors, on the other hand, filled the top seven slots in verbal reasoning and the top nine in analytic writ-ing. Philosophy majors scored 13 places above accounting majors.

Business students are falling behind those in liberal arts fields. The skills assessed on the GRE are basic – math, writing and critical thinking – and business school students are graduating without having had enough practice in those areas. A minor in the liberal arts would change this.

Bringing liberal arts to the School of Business would mean that students would get more training in the skills applicable to GMAT and GRE tests.

So, business majors, no need to fear: A required liberal arts mi-nor will not land you a permanent spot on the other side of the Star-bucks counter. It may actually be your key into the business world.

–The writer, a sophomore majoring English, is a Hatchet

columnist.

The University said last month that it had been inflating admissions data for a de-cade. However, when it hired an audit firm, it only had the company review this past year's data to determine what went wrong and how it happened.

The University said the audit found that the inaccuracies were “without malice" – but it could not determine the origin of the error.

The University did not release a written report from Baker Tilly, one of the country's largest accounting and auditing firms, when asked because administrators say a formal audit report does not exist.

Wait. What? Yes, the Board of Trustees allegedly only

received an oral report from auditors at Bak-er Tilly in a closed-door meeting.

Since the administration held a town hall to discuss the data misreporting and U.S. News & World Report unranking be-fore Thanksgiving break, they thought the issue would quickly become a matter of the past. But with so many pressing ques-tions left unanswered, it is impossible to put this behind us.

GW will return to the U.S. News rank-ings list next year. What remains an issue is how the University has responded to this sit-uation, and that it failed to release evidence to support its claims.

It is inconceivable that the University would pay a firm to examine its records and then not receive any documentation of that investigation. The whole purpose of con-ducting an audit is to set the record straight.

Administrators claim that in the oral report, auditors said no other data was calculated inaccurately. And when asked for evidence, University President Steven Knapp said, “There is not a formal audit report." But it is mind-boggling that there is allegedly no written record and further-more, that the University apparently did not request one from Baker Tilly.

How can this school's leaders not have proof to substantiate the findings of Baker Tilly's audit?

The president of the Association of Col-lege and University Auditors, Phillip Hurd, told The Hatchet he has worked on hundreds of audits for institutions of higher education.

“To not have a written [report] on some-thing so important would be questionable," he said. "If it’s going to be an official response to an issue, it’s always going to be something written. It’s kind of like, if you didn’t write it down, it didn’t happen."

We cannot fathom why GW's prac-tices would be any different from other schools. And rather than getting peace of mind from this audit, we are left only with more questions.

Why didn’t the Board of Trustees get a report from Baker Tilly? Why would a reputable firm like Baker Tilly conduct an audit and not bother to provide a writ-ten report? Wouldn’t the University want physical documentation for its own re-cords, at the very least?

Is it possible that the University purpose-ly chose not to ask for a report? Could it be that administrators didn’t want one? If that is the case, is there something in the report that the administration doesn’t want the commu-nity to know?

The auditors supposedly gave a presen-tation to members of the Board of Trustees in a closed-door meeting in October. More than a dozen board members declined to com-ment on the presentation, provide their re-actions to the audit, say if they received any documentation or explain whether or not they specifically asked the firm not to create any records.

When put in these kind of situations, it is standard practice for an institution to re-lease a report. After reporting incorrect infor-mation to U.S. News, Claremont McKenna College and Iona College released a 25-page report and six-page report, respectively, out-lining the nature of the error, the steps the college took to find its source and the audit’s overall findings.

If the University wanted a formal report, it could have had one, and administrators would have something to release to the com-munity – a much-needed display of trans-parency.

But by leaving students and alumni empty-handed, the University further tar-nishes its reputation and insults our intelli-gence as a community.

Somewhere inside Baker Tilly’s office, there must be a file on its investigation of GW’s admissions statistics. The University should demand that report and release it to the public.

It is in the University's best interest to release a formal report. Otherwise, it is bla-tantly failing to be transparent with a com-munity that is asking for answers to glaring questions.

It has been almost a month since GW an-nounced it was inflating data, and as more details – like the lack of an actual audit report – have come out, more questions have arisen. Administrators and the Board of Trustees can’t expect this to just blow over.

We want to move on, but we can’t until we have more answers.

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underneath the Christmas treeby Montana Debor

Jacob GarberColumnist

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has already committed to building it. Parsons, a mem-ber of the Faculty Senate's fis-cal planning and budgeting committee, has been a staunch critic of the University's plans for financing the hall.

“The SEH is basically an al-batross around the neck of GW, and the University has to lead with that, because the president has promised publicly he’s go-ing to raise $100 million,” he said. “They have a lot of pres-sure on them to do it.”

Philanthropy for the build-ing will likely pick up when the University launches a com-prehensive capital campaign, for which planning has been in the works for years. There is no confirmed start date, but Barto-lini said the Science and Engi-neering Hall will be a signature point of the campaign.

The fundraising office is also tasked with raking in about $300 million to fuel the strategic plan, a 10-year outline of initiatives that include add-ing new faculty positions and research centers.

Vice President for Devel-

opment and Alumni Relations Mike Morsberger said his office is “pleased with the growing momentum” of SEH fundrais-ing, adding that his office is engaging in conversations with “numerous individuals and or-ganizations” for major gifts.

“Whether donors give to programs or bricks and mortar, it demonstrates commitment to the vision of this extraordinary facility and will lead to greater gifts as we move forward,” Morsberger said.

A tepid economy can slow a donor's decision to give – es-pecially during an election year, he said, but “the GW communi-ty has given record amounts in the past couple of years, so our trajectory is clearly going up.”

Some donors have already put their stamps on the build-ing. The SEH will add a green-house, funded by a multimil-lion dollar gift from the estate of alumnus Bill Harlan, who died in 2006.

The University will also use $180 million in lease payments from The Avenue through 2014 to pay for the SEH, and $55 million in recov-eries of overhead costs through 2022 by shifting researchers to GW-owned buildings.

The hall has been touted

as transformative for the University’s aggressive push toward technical fields and innovation. It’s helped attract a stronger class of science and engineering faculty and students to the University by promising high-tech nano-imaging suites and wet labs to replace aging facilities.

The University hopes that promise will also lure a com-

pany or individual to give up to $50 million for the naming rights to the building.

“That is complicated, be-cause there are relatively few individuals and corporations or foundations or whatever that have the resources to do that,” David Dolling, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science, said.

Several other buildings

around the University are still awaiting big gifts to brand a new name on the building, like South Hall, West Hall and 1957 E Street, and multiple academic halls.

Concern about the Univer-sity high-rolling on the project may be valid, said Stacy Palm-er, editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy.

“GW is relatively new to

sophisticated fundraising. This is an ambitious goal, so this may take awhile to play out,” she said.

GW, a tuition-dependent university, only recently ex-panded fundraising efforts af-ter decades to pay for a bevvy of capital projects and ramp up financial aid. Its number of alumni who studied law or social sciences also dwarfs the number of alumni who would be more inclined to give to sci-ence or engineering.

Fundraising for higher education is expected to grow by 5.9 percent this fiscal year, according to a June report by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, but it is still trailing pre-recession levels.

But GW’s struggles to in-crease holding on to donations for the building over the last eight months may also be due to big donors holding onto their checkbooks as Congress anticipates a tax code overhaul and may increase taxes on the wealthy to avoid the fiscal cliff.

“For the most part, fund-raisers say they’re challenged to get people to make any deci-sions right now at all,” Palmer said. “Even talking about this stuff is tough right now.” u

selection, quickly shot down the charge in subsequent emails on Carter's message chain. Faculty and adminis-trators said that Maggs was chosen because of his expe-rience as dean, and that the pick best stabilizes the law school’s leadership.

Bracey told The Hatchet that he looked forward to working with Maggs. He acknowledged that “the op-tics of the situation are not ideal,” especially because he is the first black senior associate dean, and faculty do not usually influence in-terim dean decisions. But he said he could not say con-clusively whether faculty may have mobilized against him because of his race.

“The deviation from the norm raises a red flag for some people,” he said. “But my experience – as someone who researches and writes about constitutional law, civil rights and the history of American race relations – is that one rarely receives honest answers when race

is involved.”Stephen Saltzburg, a law

professor who’s taught at the school for over 20 years, said faculty have welcomed Maggs back to a leadership role with intense fundrais-ing demands. Berman has prioritized fundraising to inflate its financial aid pool and grow new programs, raising $2.5 million so far this year.

“[Maggs is] one of the most popular teachers we have in the law school. The alums love him,” Saltzburg said. “He’s an ideal person to have. When we send him out to talk to alums and raise money, we’re sending out someone they love and respect.”

Michael Abramowicz, a law professor, said Maggs would have to face the chal-lenge of keeping the school afloat during tough eco-nomic times, but added that he has earned faculty trust.

“He has an amazing ability to make difficult ad-ministrative decisions that make everyone feel heard and advances the interests of the law school,” Abramo-wicz said.

Maggs has been a law school professor since 1993, also serving as senior asso-ciate dean for academic af-fairs. He’s now co-director of the National Security and U.S. Foreign Relations Law Program.

Lerman announced the move in an email to law school faculty Friday morn-ing. He told The Hatchet that Maggs’ experience in the dean’s office gave him an edge.

“He is an extraordinary scholar, teacher and admin-istrator who is well-respect-ed by his colleagues and by the School’s alumni,” Lerman said in an email, adding that he was grateful Bracey would remain in the school’s administration. u

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year and several top admin-istrators leaving their posts. The departures, some of which were brought on by an advising revamp, have shaken up undergraduate advising and career services programs often considered models for success across the University.

Guthrie said he’s filled the financial hole he inher-ited with record fundraising and by growing enrollment by 20 percent. He declined to say how large the deficit was when he entered the school or exactly how much he’s fundraised over the last two years.

His other efforts have had more mixed results.

Guthrie pledged to put the business school on three continents and triple the number of endowed pro-fessor. Those goals have hit some roadblocks. The busi-ness school's potential glob-al program that would split

undergraduates' four years between China, France and D.C. has seen delays, and the school only hired one endowed chair last year.

GW also has not yet moved up in rankings, dropping two spots to No. 54 in Bloomberg Business-week’s MBA rankings last month and slipping seven slots to No. 66 in the maga-zine’s undergraduate list last March. Students noted in Businessweek surveys that they experienced poor communication from ad-ministrators.

And some faculty say they have noticed a gap in trust with the dean's office.

Fewer professors show up at faculty meetings now after Guthrie started a “command and control ap-proach,” professor of tour-ism studies Douglas Frech-tling said.

“We have a dean who came in who decided to institute radical changes for the purpose of rais-ing the rating of the busi-ness school,” Frechtling said. “He has made a lot of

changes and in my opin-ion – and like others have complained – he has con-solidated control in his own office.”

Prabir Bagchi, a profes-sor of operations and sup-ply chain management, said without trust from fac-ulty, Guthrie will face more resistance throughout his deanship.

“Change like that has to be made through and with the faculty. Trust has to be earned,” Bagchi said. “When you haven’t earned the faculty’s trust, you’re going to hit some barriers. You won’t be successful.”

University President Steven Knapp hired Guth-rie, a China scholar and former New York Univer-sity professor of manage-ment and sociology, as the school’s top official in May 2010 after 12-year dean Su-san Phillips stepped down.

Since then, Guthrie has become an influential voice at the University, serving on GW’s strategic plan steering committee.

The opposition to Guth-

rie, part-time marketing professor David Ashley said, is natural. He added that while he likes Guthrie, he’s heard faculty complain that the growing enrollment has ballooned class sizes.

“He’s trying not to have a completely academic ap-proach – a little more run-ning the business school like a business. Sometimes faculty don’t like that and it butts up against academia,” he said.

Other professors say the school needed change and supported Guthrie’s initia-tives, like launching a mas-ter ’s of finance program in China last year and starting a slate of online MBA pro-grams. Programs like an ex-ecutive education program for professional athletes that launched last year have also generated buzz.

Jennifer Spencer, chair of the international busi-ness department, said rais-ing standards and a grow-ing enrollment is part of Guthrie’s plan to improve the school’s bottom line and earn it prestige.

She said as the school will likely approve a new under-graduate curriculum this year and start its online programs, the changes will bloom.

“There’s going to be enthusiasm on those,” she said. “This will be a big year for things working.”

Guthrie will be up for faculty review, per the school’s bylaws, next se-mester, because it is his third year as dean.

“I think it’s a healthy thing for me to get feedback from faculty, and I’m look-ing forward to what they have to say,” Guthrie said.

Scrutiny has been fierce in faculty reviews at other schools. Columbian College of Arts and Sciences profes-sors harshly criticized Dean Peg Barratt in a survey last spring, saying she lacked vision and failed to cre-ate an atmosphere of trust. Barratt announced a month later that she would step down in June 2013.

Vice Dean for Education and Programs Philip Wirtz, Guthrie’s second-in-com-mand, said that some po-

larization stems from Guth-rie’s history at NYU, where administrators typically take a “strong top-down” approach. GW, on the other hand, has stronger faculty governance.

Wirtz also said the two sides are beginning to work together. For instance, the school’s executive commit-tee, led by the dean, created a “faculty support account” that funnels money directly into research and teaching.

“If we dwell on the mis-takes made in the past by both sides, the School will get mired in dysfunctional finger-pointing rather than drawing on the consider-able forward momentum,” Wirtz said in an email. “It is unusual in the School's history for the faculty to be challenged by a motivat-ed dean to become better. But slowly we are seeing a growing – if begrudging – recognition by the faculty that this is a unique oppor-tunity to move the School into the top tier.”

–Cory Weinberg contributed to this report.

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Business & economicsFor Don Draper wannabes and those who follow the stock market religiously, here are a few ideas for ideal presents:

A share of stock Is your friend a Coke or a Pepsi person? Buy them a share of stock from E-Trade or Zecco and pair it up with a bottle of soda to help out their investment. ($5 sign up fee and about $30 a share on Zecco.com)

Business card holder One important part of business is networking – and that’s not really possible without business cards. Get your pal something to keep all those cards organized with a business card holder. ($5.49, amazon.com)

Monopoly The game of money and property can get pretty vicious, especially for wan-nabe business tycoons. The game comes in a variety of themes from American Idol to Dogopoly. ($17, amazon.com)

Political Science & International AffairsDoes your best friend want you to be his chief of staff while he’s living at the White House in a few years? Get them to stop watching C-SPAN with one of these gifts:

“The Economist” wall calendar Does your friend like to make every day a history lesson? This cal-endar offers some help, noting important dates like Amelia Earhart’s historic flight and Obama’s first State of the Union address. ($29.96, amazon.com)

Vintage campaign gear Is your politically active friend in campaign withdrawal? Good news: The Internet is home to plenty of campaign T-shirts, stickers and buttons from campaigns in the '70s. (T-shirts about $15 on cafepress.com)

“Theories of International Politics and Zombies” This entertaining book by Daniel W. Drezner de-picts what would happen on the world stage if zombies started to invade. ($11.40, amazon.com)

HumanitiesWe all know a Cold War buff or someone who is writing their senior thesis on an author you have probably never heard of. Here are some obscure gift ideas for those friends this winter:

Barnes & Noble gift card Even though the store closed on M Street, you can still shop at the B&N in Penn Quarter or online. Give your friend a card to buy just about any book in the world. (Any price, Barnes & Noble stores or banesandnoble.com)

Ugly holiday sweater Will your friend need some-thing fun to wear to that tacky sweater party? Look no further than myuglychristmassweater.com for all kinds of sweaters – even ones that light up. ($20, myuglychristmassweater.com)

Henry VIII Vanishing Wives Mug When you pour hot water in, pictures of all six of the king’s wives vanish, leaving only their outlines. Per-fect for the history buff. ($12.95 philosophers-guild.com)

Social SciencesHas your friend constantly diagnosed you with disorders since taking Introduction to Psychol-ogy? Shut him or her up for a few seconds with one of these gifts:

Tickle Me Freud Help them get acqauinted with Freudian thought with the adult version of the classic Elmo toy. ($49.78, amazon.com)

Gift card to Anthropologie Your girl friends won't be able to study sociocultural anthropology with it, but she will be able to pick up some really cute home furnishings or outfits. (Any price anthro-pologie.com)

Sociology Chick apparel Is your female friend getting A’s in sociology? Grab her some Sociology Chick gear. This apparel, complete with a cartoon baby chick, will help make sure everyone knows she’s a soc major. (T-shirt $31.45 at zazzle.com)

Sciences & MathematicsIs your friend a physics geek? Buy them one of these awesome gifts to get on their good side – they’ll be making more money than you ever will:

Molecular puzzler Check out this lab test game from uncommongoods.com – put together and take apart molecules while trying not to get stumped ($20, uncommongoods.com)

Anatomy coloring books There are a few ways to really learn anatomy, and coloring is one of them, apparently. Let your friend color his or her way to an "A" in their bio classes. ($13, amazon.com)

“Math Jokes 4 Mathly Folks” If your math major friend could use some help with humor, get them this book and hope it rubs off on him or her. ($9.33, amazon.com)

Journalism & Political CommunicationDoes your friend swoon every time Anderson Cooper comes on CNN or have a celebrity crush Bob Woodward? Spring for one of the following gifts:

Starbucks gift card Any budding journalist is al-ready addicted to caffeine. Fuel that addiction by running to the Gelman Starbucks and snagging a gift card with a cute box. (Any price at Starbucks)

“The Onion Book of Known Knowledge: A Definitive Encyclopedia of Existing Information" The crew at “The Onion” pub-lished this book in October which will give your journalism friends a break from the hard hitting stuff. ($16.66, amazon.com)

New York Times subscription True wannabe journalists worship The Times. A digital subscrip-tion will do. ($45+, nytimes.com)

uDrink whenever a Christmas carol is playing.

uDrink if you see a Christmas tree or someone unwrapping a present.

uDrink any time it’s snowing on-screen.

uDrink whenever someone is wearing a holiday sweater.

uDrink for any sighting of Santa Claus.

uDrink if anyone says “Merry Christ-mas” or “Happy Hanukkah.”

uIf you’re watching the movie on TV, drink for any holiday-related advertisement.

uDrink if the movie’s in clay-mation. It will start to make more sense.

uDrink for any mistletoe sighting. Kiss someone if it’s appropriate.

uIf you’re watching a movie with a huge ensemble cast – "Love Actually," "New Year’s Eve," etc. – drink any time the movie switches storylines.

uIf you’re a guy, and your girlfriend roped you into watching one of those movies, pour some out for your fellow fallen brethren. Then take a drink.

uTake two drinks if someone in the movie celebrates both Christmas and Hanukkah.

uDrink again if you’re watching the Ru-grats holiday special.

uFinish your drink if someone finds love in the midst of the holiday season.

uFinish your drink if a child discovers the true meaning of Christmas.

uFinish everything in the house if that actu-ally involves anything religious (don’t worry, you’re safe on this one).

There’s no place like home for the holi-days, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t places we’d all rather be. If

Thanksgiving break taught us anything, it’s that we don’t really want to spend any more time with these people than is absolutely necessary. After you’re tired of running into kids from your high school at the local bar, gather a few people you can stand, pop in a holiday movie, crack open your favorite sea-sonal adult beverage and play the Bar Bro’s Holiday Drinking Game.

BARBRO

As always, the Bar Bro urges you to drink responsibly. Don’t be classless. Just low-class.

Sometimes gift-giving is a game of chance. Think of your friends' majors or interest areas for a better chance at a gift they will love this holiday season. The Hatchet has gift ideas for all your friends, no matter their field. by JULIe ALDerMAN | Hatchet Staff Writer

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Multicolored spatulas and Le Creuset pots are stacked up to the ceiling at Home Rule, the perfect shop for the sans-kitchen freshman itching to spend the holidays baking. Say thank you to the exhausted GW canvasser with the Proud to be a Democrat or Republican ornaments ($9.99). Home Rule brings out the fun in household products, like with the rabbit-eared pepper grinder mini magnetic pep-perball ($6.99) and the gummy bear-shaped Gummy Goods Soap ($7.99). The M Cup Measuring Matroysh-kas ($11.99), measuring cups shaped like Russian nesting dolls, could liven up the most mundane kitchen activity.

Looking for a gift for a friend with a wacky sweet tooth? Try the chocolate-covered potato chips ($8.95) or maple bacon bar ($7.50). Chocolate Choc-olate was made famous by the Food Network for its large, three-dimensional chocolate U.S. Capitol Dome, Jefferson Memorial, Washington Monu-ment and Lincoln Memorial (each $14.95, Wash-ington Monument $10.95). These impressive struc-tures, which come in white, dark and milk Belgian Callebaut chocolate put a patriotic spin on the time-less tradition of holiday chocolate.

Lou Lou’s vast collection of affordable and high-quality jewelry makes it impossible to leave empty-handed. Tables are arranged by color, making for a smorgasbord of blues, purples, greens, golds, silvers and whites awaiting eager accessory seekers. Whether your mother, sister or girlfriend prefers bright colors or simple metallics, Lou Lou has it all. The pauline earrings ($25) stand out for their preppy yet classic structure, a standard of Washington style. If you are in search of a piece for a friend with a unique fashion sense, drop some cash on the equestrian parade bangle ($49) or the Aztec-inspired starburst ring ($20).

We all have that friend who's just a notch more cynical than everyone else. For that person, look no further than Pulp DC, which specializes in subversive and humorous knick-knacks, like the six-card set of Happy Birthday Jesus greet-ing cards ($15.99) and “The Naughty and Nice Christmas Kama Sutra,” ($12.95) book. Try something a bit tamer for the junior historian in the family with the magnetic first ladies ($14.99). Film geeks will appreciate a set of StarWars coasters ($16.99). And for seniors settling down in the dis-trict, a D.C. flag ornament ($14.99) will add local pride to their Christmas trees for years to come.

Chocolate Moose should be your first stop for inexpensive gifts for friends and younger siblings. Impress kids and kids-at-heart alike with the rad Spider-Man comics table lamp ($48), which is sure to delight kids from 1 to 92. For those with more sophisticated taste, the colorful and ornately patterened flower heads handmade paper lantern ($12, $15 electrical cords sold separately) will bring class to even the drabbest room on the cheap. And if you know someone in need of an unorthodox addition to their Christmas tree, get them a purple, pink or silver sugar skull ornament ($12).

Though trekking to Hill’s Kitchen’s cozy townhouse requires leaving the familiar Northwest D.C., this quick sojourn along the Blue or Orange Metro lines is worth it. You'll find the store’s signature product – U.S. cookie cutters ($1.75 each) – among plenty of other kitchen items, from kiwi peelers to castle-shaped baking molds, which make great gifts for parents. The store also offers cooking classes. You can’t go wrong with the state-shaped cookie cutters, but steer clear of Hawaiian family members – they haven't figured out how to turn the islands into a cookie cutter yet.

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Hill's Kitchen 713 D St., SE, open Tuesdays to Saturdays 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sundays 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Chocolate Moose 1743 L St., NW, open Mondays to Saturdays 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 1601 Connecticut Ave., NW, open Mondays to Saturdays 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Sundays 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.Lou Lou

Chocolate Chocolate Pulp DCHome Rule 1803 14th St., NW, open Mondays to Saturdays 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Sundays 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

1807 14th St., NW, open Mondays to Saturdays 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Sundays noon to 5:30 p.m.

1130 Connecticut Ave., NW. open Mondays to Fridays 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturdays 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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This winter, search for holiday gifts for family and friends at these six independently owned D.C. shops.

That eggnog in the dairy fridge you don’t know what to do with is screaming to be made into a holi-day cocktail, and who couldn't use a bit of a kick to their huge holi-day meals? Rum pairs well with the richness and subtle vanilla flavor of the eggnog, and you’ll be amazed by how you can transform store-bought whipped cream with a few drops of light rum. Make your spirits bright this holiday season by making this nog-tini.

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Blintzes: Neither a football play nor a military tactic, but a delightful Hanukkah dish. I took the classic preparation – tender crepes stuffed with ricotta and cream cheese and topped with a type of fruit syrup – and simplified it.

Directions:1. In a sauce pan over high heat, boil the blueberries with orange juice and sugar. Cook the berries until you’re left with a thick sauce.2. Mix the ingredients until there are no lumps and the mixture falls from the whisk or fork in a thin stream. 3. Ladle a portion into a large nonstick pan over medium heat and tilt the pan to spread out the batter. Flip when it is slightly browned.4. Mix the mascarpone cheese powdered sugar to taste5. Roll some filling inside a crepe and pour the blueberry syrup on top. Serve with a dusting of powdered sugar.

Basic Crepe Batter Ingredients:1 cup milk1/4 cup cold water2 eggs1 cup all-purpose flourpinch of salt1 tbsp sugar3 tbsp unsalted butter1 tsp olive oil

syrup:1 package of blueberries1/3 cup orange juice1/3 cup sugar

Filling:Mascarpone cheesePowdered sugar, to taste

Dec. 3, 2012Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington DC This 200-singer chorus will perform traditional carols with Virginia Bronze handbell ensemble. This event will also feature the “Rockettes” and a vampy visit from Mrs. Claus. GW Lisner Auditorium, 8 p.m.Tickets: $13-$55

Winter on the WaterSharpen your skates or rent a pair at D.C.’s newest outdoor skat-ing rink in Georgetown. The rink will remain open for skating until March 2013.Washington Harbour, 3050 K St., NWSee washingtonharbour.com/skating for holiday hours$9 per person, $5 for skate rental

U.S. Capitol Tree LightingBefore the National Christmas Tree is lighted later this week, venture down

to the U.S. Capitol.U.S Capitol, East Capitol and 1st streets, NE

Dec. 5, 2012The NutcrackerGet into the holiday spirit by watching Ballet West’s production of this clas-sic show. The show runs from Dec. 5 through 9.The John F. Kennedy Center for the Per-forming Arts 2700 F St., NWTickets: $45-$150

Dec. 6, 2012National Christmas Tree LightingNeil Patrick Harris will host this year’s event. If you didn’t receive a ticket through the lottery to witness the of-ficial lighting at 5 p.m., the tree will be decorated and on display for the entire month of December. The Ellipse, 1600 Constitution Ave., NW

Dec. 8, 2012JCC Hanukkah CelebrationCelebrate the first night of Ha-nukkah by lighting the candles at the Jewish Community Center in

Rockville, Md. This event is from 6 to 7:30 p.m.Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington, 6125 Montrose Road, Rockville, Md.

The Christmas RevelsWith a cast of more than 100 ac-tors, singers and musicians, the 30th annual production of this show will include musical per-formances like “Twelve Days of Christmas.” The show runs from Dec. 8 through 16.Lisner AuditoriumTickets: $14.40-$36 for students

Dec. 9, 2012Run with Santa 5KKeep off those unwanted holiday sea-son pounds. Venture to Virginia and get a little exercise on a run with Santa. Participants are encouraged to dress in their favorite holiday costume and awards will be given out for the best costume. The race begins at 8:30 a.m.Reston Town Center11900 Market St., Reston, Va. Race fee: $30-$35

Dec. 11, 2012Jingle Ball Holiday ConcertAs finals season sets in, take a break from studying and head to the Patriot Center to watch performances by Flo Rida, Cher Lloyd, Justin Bieber, Ke$ha, Enrique Iglesias, PSY, Ed Sheeran and Austin Mahone. The concert begins at 7 p.m.Patriot Center, George Mason University4500 Patriot Circle, Fairfax, Va.Tickets: $35-$250

Dec. 13, 2012Give a Can, Get a CanThis month, give back to the com-munity by participating in this easy holiday fundraiser for Martha’s Table. Simply bring a can of nonperishable food to Birreria Paradiso and receive a free can of beer. This event runs from 11:30 a.m. to 11p.m.Birreria Paradiso, 3282 M St., NW

Dec. 19, 2012Rock-n-ShopFor those who still need to do some last-minute holiday shop-ping or just enjoy a good garage

sale, journey to the Black Cat’s annual rock and roll garage sale. The event, which starts at 8 p.m., will features records, T-shirts and more. Black Cat, 1811 14th St., NW

Dec. 28, 2012Kwanzaa CelebrationAttend a Kwanzaa celebration featuring Melvin Deal and the Af-rican American Heritage Drum-mers and Dancers. This free event begins at 10 a.m.Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church1600 Morris Road, SE

Dec. 31, 2012New Year's Eve at the Kennedy CenterBefore the ball drops, listen to Broadway, film and television star Cheyenne Jackson, as well as oth-er musical artists perform music from the 1950s and 60s. The con-cert starts at 8:30 p.m.The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 2700 F St., NWTickets: $55-$105

Christmas Potatoes Au Gratin

Winter Nog-tiniDirections: 1. Mix the cold rum with eggnog and pour into a martini glass.2. Lightly incorporate a bit of rum into the whipped cream and place a dollop on top of the martini.3. Dust with cinnamon.

Ingredients:1 shot of light rum3 shots of eggnogwhipped cream

Christmas and comfort food go hand-in-hand, and there’s nothing more comforting than a potato dish. I used buttery Yukon gold pota-toes, bathed them in cream and added a heap of melted Gruyere cheese. Just hope your stockings will be as stuffed as you.

Ingredients:4 yukon gold potatoes, peeled and thinly sliced2 sweet potatoes, peeled and thinly sliced1 cup heavy cream1 block of Gruyere cheesea few sprigs of thymea pinch of salt2 tablespoons butter

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Directions:1. Grate the Gruyere cheese.2. In a lightly buttered baking dish, layer the Yukon gold potatoes, Gruyere and thyme leaves. Disperse the layers of sweet potatoes evenly. 3. Mix a pinch of salt and a bit of melted butter with the cream and pour over the potatoes. Top with a final layer of Gruyere cheese and bake for about one and a half hours at 350 degrees.

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In the months since my 21st birth-

day, H Street corridor has emerged as my favorite scene in the District. There’s something for everyone: tasty food, great music venues, legitimate, pre-gentrified hipster cred – if you’re into that sort of thing – and some of the coolest and most innovative bars in the city. Still, it’s rare that I see another group of GW kids along H Street. It may be a little far for some of you – the closest Metro stop is Union Station, af-ter which you may want to grab a cab or, God forbid, walk. But if you put in the effort, H Street is sure to provide some of the most fun nights you'll have in college.

Every Friday night, H Street staple Rock N Roll Hotel hosts a “Spelling Buzz” from 8 to 10 p.m. As a lover of drinking games, and one of The Hatchet’s best spellers, I decided to try it out this weekend with a few friends. Worst case scenario: I would have a couple drinks, get knocked out early and go hit a few other bars. Best case scenario: I could win the first prize – a $60 bar tab – and bragging rights for the rest of the night.

The setup had all the familiar trap-pings of a classic, grade school spelling bee. Contestants sat in rows of chairs and approached a podium with a mi-crophone when it was their turn to spell. But there's a catch: Contestants must have a drink in hand at all times, and the emcee, or whoever is spelling at the podium, may order competitors to drink at any time. It’s sort of like what the Scripps National Spelling Bee would be if the 12-year-old Indian kids were hammered, rowdy adults.

The master of ceremonies, a man by the name of King Baby Shoes, car-ried himself like a less flamboyant Cee-Lo Green, exchanging good-na-tured barbs with the contestants. The words in the first round, he reminded us, were from the sixth-grade spelling list. Still, of the 30 or so competitors, about half were cut in the first round, flubbing words like “refrigerator,” “hyphen” and “chauffeur.” When it was my turn, he made fun of the fact that I had unbuttoned my shirt to

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The next round got a little tougher, partly because we had moved up in word difficulty, and partly because we had been drinking pretty steadily. With PBR tallboys at $4 a pop, only feelings get hurt at the spelling buzz – not wallets. When my friend went out on “poinsettia” she was absolutely furious. This is a unique quality of one-and-done spelling bees. There is some-thing maddening about the fact that no two words are the same. You cor-rectly whisper the spellings of the five preceding words into your friend’s ear, only to screw up when you get to the podium. “Capoeira?” one may say, “But she got ‘bizarre!’ How is that fair?” Needless to say, my friend will never misspell “poinsettia” ever again. Luckily, I conjured the second “n” in “legionnaire” and skated through to

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out on “alette,” incorrectly pronounced “elite” by the King, but hey, who’s keep-ing track? It's an architectural term for a supporting post or arch, or the wing of a building. The second-place finisher missed “sarsaparilla,” while the win-ner correctly spelled “saccharin.” After the winner was announced we headed out to H Street – drunk, happy, a little smarter and hungry to come back and win that bar tab. If nothing else, I’ll know how to spell “alette” the next time I see one. u

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The Colonials struggled to break through the press and establish a solid offen-sive presence Sunday. In the first half, the team had 12 turnovers, struggled to even get shots off and couldn’t get any second-chance points, a sign of limited production in the paint. In the second, the team turned it over 11 more times, ending the game with 23 total turnovers.

“We really wanted to get the ball inside and go inside-out. It was tough for us getting the ball over half court, obviously,” Loner-gan said. “But we were just trying to get touches in the middle of the court with our big guys.”

Contributing to the challenges in the first were GW’s familiar shooting struggles. The team went through stages of stagnant shooting in the first, finding itself in an early five-point hole before roaring back – four times – to tie the game. The Colonials took the lead on two treys late in the first, only to have its momentum sapped when the Jaspers tied it up at the buzzer off of back-to-back threes of their own.

“We just went into the locker room and tried to fo-cus on executing and really playing like we normally do,” senior guard Lasan Kromah said. “We came back in the second half and got our composure and tried to make a run.”

The offense ran into more trouble early in the second half, when freshman point guard Joe McDonald was forced to sit due to foul trou-ble just two minutes into the half. The duty of running the offense fell to senior guard Bryan Bynes and freshman guard Kethan Savage, both of whom are more comfort-able at the two slot. And then Savage fouled out.

Bynes, despite going 0-for-5, was able to take over, running the offense for large portions of the second half without a turnover.

“He missed easy shots, but at least he gave us some pretty good ball handling and defense. Joe had major foul trouble and was just out of it today, so I thought

it was key that Bryan came in and kept his composure,” Lonergan said.

The Colonials were able to hang on for the vic-tory, closing the game with a 44.4 shooting percentage and dishing out roughly the same number of assists in the second as they had in the first. GW pulled away down the stretch, mainly on the strength of the team's free-throw shooting, which was 82.8 percent on the day.

“Tonight, we were great from the line,” Lonergan said. “To finish the game 24 for 29, free throws are so huge, and we made them at BU. Like in all areas of the game, we just have to get

more consistent.”Senior forward Isaiah

Armwood was a force in the paint for GW, adding 23 points, nine boards and six blocks. The offense ran through Armwood Sunday afternoon, a sign of their re-liance on his presence in the paint. Freshman forward Kev-in Larsen joined Armwood in the post, adding eight points and seven boards.

His performance was supplemented by those of Kromah, who had 18 points and four boards and for-ward Patricio Garino, who had 10 points. Garino drew praise from Lonergan af-ter the game, who said the freshman had a lower ankle

injury over the last two weeks and is back to full strength after needing some rest. The team’s production is slowly building as play-ers battle for time, building off of each one another's ef-fort, Lonergan added.

“[Kromah’s] been great. That was four games in a row he shot 50 percent or better from the field. Last year, that wasn’t the case. I’m happy for him, he’s focused on defense, and I think a lot of that is having Patricio and Joe and even Kethan push him for min-utes,” Lonergan said. “He’s really responded.”

The Colonials stayed in the game largely because

of their defense, which held Manhattan scoreless for long stretches at a time. GW’s heavy-pressure man-to-man and 1-3-1 defenses slowed the Jaspers’ flow, leaving them unable to ex-ecute on offense, and the Colonials held Manhattan to just 25 percent shooting in the second. A key was Garino, Lonergan said, who guarded Manhattan’s of-ten-explosive senior guard George Beamon and held him to 3-for-13 shooting.

Overall, the Jaspers shot 33.9 percent on the day. GW’s defense was the true key to the game, post-ing seven blocks and seven steals, and outrebounding

Manhattan 41-27. The dis-crepancy of the battle on the boards was particularly evident on the defensive, the Colonials pulling down 30 in that category alone.

“The boards were even at halftime, it was pretty disappointing,” Lonergan said. “I just said ‘every-body’s got to get in there and rebound.’ I thought our guards helped, and Isaiah really controlled the game, and Kevin, with our size.”

The victory pulled GW ahead of a .500 record, a valuable win, Lonergan said, as the team continues through non-conference play and heads into league action. u

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NumbEr cruNch23 The number of points men's basketball

senior forward Isaiah Armwood had in Sunday's win over Manhattan.

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womEN's baskETball | GEORGETOWN 70, GW 54

GW received a taste of its own defensive medicine Sat-urday night, and it certainly wasn’t sweet.

In a battle of cross-town rivals, Georgetown (6-2) came out on top, defeating the host Colonials (4-3) by a final score of 70-54. Georgetown was able to achieve exactly what head coach Jonathan Tsipis’ defense has been successful at this sea-son: forcing uncomfortable situations and continuously hounding opponents. Using a full-court press for the game’s entirety, the active Hoya de-fense forced 30 GW turnovers and scored 27 points off those turnovers.

“That’s the one thing Georgetown does a really good job of, is they keep com-ing after you,” Tsipis said. “[Georgetown head coach] Keith [Brown] has them really playing at that high level no matter what their role is of-fensively. They’re active, they have their hands going and they’re really going to force you into situations to make you uncomfortable.”

And the Colonials were in-deed uncomfortable, playing much of the game at a frantic pace as they tried to get the ball into the half court. Even when they did successfully break the press, Georgetown's zone defense forced a barrage of over-the-head lob passes to find open teammates, disrupt-ing GW's offensive rhythm.

Still, at the half, the score was tied 33-33, with all signs of momentum pointing to GW – despite it having given up a 10-point lead with six minutes and 27 seconds left to play in the first. The team was shoot-ing 46.2 percent from behind the arc, in part due to graduate student forward Tara Booker, 4 for 5 from three, who scored

14 of her 20 total points in the first half.

When action began in the second half though, all that momentum and confidence immediately swung toward the Hoyas.

“They did a great job com-ing out of the locker room in the second half and making sure they were on the attack,” Tsipis said. “They were ag-gressive, they got to the free throw line, they got to the rim – and you could just see the momentum change on the ag-gressive nature we had in the first half.”

Georgetown erupted for a 17-4 run, finding itself with a 52-37 lead. Its press defense came out even more aggressive and exposed the flaws in GW’s offense that before had been masked by impressive first-half shooting. As shots stopped falling for the Colonials, they continued to settle for outside jumpers – unable to attack the lane and establish themselves inside. For the game, George-town outscored GW 32-6 in the paint, something Tsipis attrib-uted not to the Hoya’s height advantage, but to their higher level of activity.

On the opposite end, as a team which has relied all year on pressure defense to score, GW couldn’t get anything go-ing in transition. Despite forc-ing 25 Hoya turnovers, they scored only 16 points off turn-overs and had a mere four fast break points. For Tsipis, this again pointed to the dispar-ity in aggression between the teams and the performance in the two halves.

“I think it goes back to what we were able to force defensively in the first half where we got some easy bas-kets and transition points,”

Tsipis said. “And I think that was the difference for us in the two halves. We faced a full defense almost every single time, and even after we broke the press, we got too deep into the shot clock and didn’t react well off of that.”

In addition, Georgetown more than doubled the num-ber of GW’s free throw at-tempts, going 19-21 from the line. Ten of those free throws came from senior guard Sugar Rodgers, who was perfect at the charity stripe, finishing with a game-high 22 points. She was one of four Hoya

players to finish with double-digit points.

With six minutes and five seconds left to play, George-town led by a game-high 21 points. In a last-minute effort, Tsipis went back to a full-court press of his own, and even though it caused three straight Hoya turnovers, GW’s inabil-ity to get easy buckets put an end to its hopes.

Frustrations boiled over in the game's final seconds. GW’s senior forward Shi-He-ria Shipp and Georgetown’s Andrea White both received technical fouls and were eject-ed from the game after getting into a scrap.

“When you don’t attack the zone and find the gaps, which was the game plan go-ing into this, you get lulled into a slow kind of pace where you’re just swinging the ball around the outside,” Booker said. “I think if we would’ve attacked the gaps a lot bet-ter, got some touches on the inside and really worked more inside-out, I think that would’ve helped us be more successful.”

Looking ahead, the Colo-nials have a week off to prepare for their next game against an-other District rival, American. Unfortunately, the team will have to do so without gradu-ate student guard Brooke Wil-son, who is confirmed to have a torn ACL and will miss the remainder of the season.

Tsipis said Wilson plans to petition for extra eligibility. She redshirted her freshman year while rehabbing a high school knee injury.

“You never want to see a player get hurt, but it leads to an opportunity then for other people on the floor,” Tsipis said. “They’re asking themselves to do a little bit more everyday in practice, so they’re used to that role, and that’s kind of contagious.” u

camEroN laNcasTEr | haTchET PhoToGraPhErSophomore guard Chakecia Miller avoids a Georgetown defender as she drives to the basket on one of GW"s few fast-break opportunities during Saturday's game.

by Nick oNGContributing Editor

Women's basketball team falls to District rival Georgetown

Armwood, Kromah help drive GW to victoryfrom p. 1

jordaN EmoNT | PhoTo EdiTorLeft: Senior forward Dwayne Smith leaps to the glass to score a layup during Sunday's game. Right: Senior forward Isaiah Armwood scores two of his 23 points on the day.

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